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refers to the phenomenon of ice palingenesis already in
1761, as follows:
"I received a month ago, from the Councillor of Commerce, the Honorary Herr Burgencrona, a quantity of tea plant seeds. I tried them in water, to see if they were
sound, but found that they were decayed although the
kernel appeared sound, which generally happens with the
seeds of the tea plant. I poured water from the water jug
into the hand basin in which the seeds lay, and macerated
for eight entire days, the water became brown, the seeds were taken away and sown. This brown water remained
another eight days, if not more. I found great pleasure
in observing how the brown water separated itself from
the clear water in the hand basin, and looked like a painting of brown shrubs in the liquid water, and thought I saw
here a species of palingenesis. At last the water froze in the cold room, and perfectly retained the figure which the
tinged water had before, so that the ice lay in the hand
basin like branches and leaves. The ice was about an inch
thick, and between the branches the water had not formed
the slightest ice. It is very strange that I have not seen anything similar. I showed it to Herr Adjunctus Melander and Magister Docens Bergman, who both viewed it with the same asthonishment. The ice figures, which
show themselves on the windows, are flat, and filled up
between the branches with ice. There have been those who have thought that this comes from vegetable exhalations, perhaps, after they have passed through the bodies
of animals. It is noteworthy that the water which was
in the water jug was also frozen, but as no tea plant seeds had been^soaked in it, it had frozen in the regular way,
according to the laws of crystallization ad angulos, as salts
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